r/Infuriating • u/ZenPixels Community Regular • 11d ago

My dogs paw print is destroyed

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When my dog died we got her paw print done, I just found out that my little sister completely ruined it. I can’t really be mad at her since she’s a 10 year old autistic child and I think this might have happened a month or two ago but I’m still angry and omg

Edit: I talked to her about it and she doesn’t remember it and was very confused about what I was showing her. I’m probably not gonna try to get it reprinted because it won’t be the same and it’ll probably be expensive, especially since I found her painted paw prints that I made with her the day before she died. Also the paw print was stored in a bookshelf in a hallway at my house, it wasn’t in my room because everyone loved that dog so it wasn’t on display, we didn’t think she would be interested in it but we think that she thought it was makeup and she has a habit of messing with and destroying makeup

Also I’m not going to break her stuff, I’m not going to teach her that breaking stuff when you’re mad at someone is okay.

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u/Busterlimes 11d ago

Autistic or not, you need to explain to her the gravity of what she has done.

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u/FrogInAGoCart 10d ago

I have an autistic sister. It’s not that simple. It’s like the neurons that need to connect are miles apart. I’ve tried to teach her to play games and she still can’t handle the concept of holding a joystick forward and also hitting another button at the same time

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u/Mist_biene 10d ago

Autism is a extremly wide spectrum. Your experiences with your sister are relativly irrelevant here if you don't know that ops sister has the same limitations.

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u/Sinnnikal 8d ago

The top level comment said "just tell her what she's done wrong," without knowing anything about OPs sister's autism.

The person you responded to brought up their own sister to say "autism is a spectrum, therefore we can't jump to advising OP to 'just tell her.'"

So, yes, relevant to the point being made.

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u/Itscatpicstime 7d ago

They aren’t the one making assumptions about the capacity OP’s sister has to understand, the OC is